▲ 330 ▼ [Gamers Nexus] DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns (i.ytimg.com) submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments Invidious Youtube
[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children) please connect to the internet to do anything permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 child) If the TV can't even display basic inputs without connecting to the internet, I'm returning it to the store as defective. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 child) Isn't the new roku TVs that do this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago Maybe the very new ones? I've actually got a relatively new Roku TV (only about a year and a half old), and it works just fine without the wifi password. Only thing that annoys me about it (and probably would have gotten me to buy a different model if I knew) is that this TV has zero physical buttons. Zero. It doesn't even have a power button! The only way to control it -- even just to turn it on and off -- is with the remote. If you lose the remote, the TV is bricked. (I understand omitting physical buttons to cut costs, especially on a budget model like this one, but IMO, it's still essential to have a power button and an input switching button as physical buttons on the TV itself.) In any future TV purchases, I'll be specifically checking to make sure they have a physical power button at least. Didn't even check for it when I bought this TV because it didn't even occur to me that a TV might not have a power button. permalink fedilink source parent [–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago I am bringing this TV back for a refund as it doesn't work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 child) If the TV can't even display basic inputs without connecting to the internet, I'm returning it to the store as defective. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 child) Isn't the new roku TVs that do this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago Maybe the very new ones? I've actually got a relatively new Roku TV (only about a year and a half old), and it works just fine without the wifi password. Only thing that annoys me about it (and probably would have gotten me to buy a different model if I knew) is that this TV has zero physical buttons. Zero. It doesn't even have a power button! The only way to control it -- even just to turn it on and off -- is with the remote. If you lose the remote, the TV is bricked. (I understand omitting physical buttons to cut costs, especially on a budget model like this one, but IMO, it's still essential to have a power button and an input switching button as physical buttons on the TV itself.) In any future TV purchases, I'll be specifically checking to make sure they have a physical power button at least. Didn't even check for it when I bought this TV because it didn't even occur to me that a TV might not have a power button. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 child) Isn't the new roku TVs that do this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago Maybe the very new ones? I've actually got a relatively new Roku TV (only about a year and a half old), and it works just fine without the wifi password. Only thing that annoys me about it (and probably would have gotten me to buy a different model if I knew) is that this TV has zero physical buttons. Zero. It doesn't even have a power button! The only way to control it -- even just to turn it on and off -- is with the remote. If you lose the remote, the TV is bricked. (I understand omitting physical buttons to cut costs, especially on a budget model like this one, but IMO, it's still essential to have a power button and an input switching button as physical buttons on the TV itself.) In any future TV purchases, I'll be specifically checking to make sure they have a physical power button at least. Didn't even check for it when I bought this TV because it didn't even occur to me that a TV might not have a power button. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago Maybe the very new ones? I've actually got a relatively new Roku TV (only about a year and a half old), and it works just fine without the wifi password. Only thing that annoys me about it (and probably would have gotten me to buy a different model if I knew) is that this TV has zero physical buttons. Zero. It doesn't even have a power button! The only way to control it -- even just to turn it on and off -- is with the remote. If you lose the remote, the TV is bricked. (I understand omitting physical buttons to cut costs, especially on a budget model like this one, but IMO, it's still essential to have a power button and an input switching button as physical buttons on the TV itself.) In any future TV purchases, I'll be specifically checking to make sure they have a physical power button at least. Didn't even check for it when I bought this TV because it didn't even occur to me that a TV might not have a power button. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago I am bringing this TV back for a refund as it doesn't work. permalink fedilink source parent